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Author Galey, Alan, 1975- author.

Title The Shakespearean archive : experiments in new media from the Renaissance to postmodernity / Alan Galey.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (331 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Introduction: scenes from the prehistory of digitization -- 2. Leaves of brass: Shakespeare and the idea of the archive -- 3. The archive and the book: information architectures from folio to variorum -- 4. The counterfeit presentments of Victorian photography -- 5. Inventing Shakespeare's voice: early sound transmission and recording -- 6. Networks of deep impression: Shakespeare and the modern invention of information -- 7. Data and the ghosts of materiality -- Conclusion: sites of Shakespearean memory.
Summary "Why is Shakespeare so often associated with information technologies and with the idea of archiving itself? Alan Galey explores this question through the entwined histories of Shakespearean texts and archival technologies over the past four centuries. In chapters dealing with the archive, the book, photography, sound, information, and data, Galey analyses how Shakespeare became prototypical material for publishing experiments, and new media projects, as well as for theories of archiving and computing. Analysing examples of the Shakespearean archive from the seventeenth century to today, he takes an original approach to Shakespeare and new media that will be of interest to scholars of the digital humanities, Shakespeare studies, archives, and media history. Rejecting the idea that current forms of computing are the result of technical forces beyond the scope of humanist inquiry, this book instead offers a critical prehistory of digitisation read through the afterlives of Shakespeare's texts"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Criticism and interpretation.
History.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual.
Criticism, Textual.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography.
Genre/Form Bibliographies.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Study and teaching -- Technological innovations.
Technological innovations.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- In mass media.
Edition_.
Archives -- Technological innovations.
Archives -- Technological innovations.
Archives.
Archival materials -- Digitization.
Archival materials -- Digitization.
Literature and technology.
Literature and technology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Bibliographies.
Other Form: Print version: Galey, Alan, 1975- Shakespearean archive 9781107040649 (DLC) 2014019406 (OCoLC)874733153
ISBN 9781316075432 (electronic book)
1316075435 (electronic book)
9781139629201 (electronic book)
1139629204 (electronic book)
9781316073070 (electronic book)
1316073076 (electronic book)
132229304X (e-book)
9781322293042 (e-book)
9781107040649 (hardback)
1107040647 (hardback)
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